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ecmanaut
Personal blog · ecmanaut.blogspot.comprogrammingweb
ecmanaut is a personal blog at ecmanaut.blogspot.com about programming and web. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for hoodwink'd, an early annotation-style site overlay that needed DNS settings to work, and for its URL-hashing idea that a commenter compares to Goggles. Comments mention the project and its history.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2006/01/hoodwinkd.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-22
What Hacker News says?
Hey, that's awesome! Your design reminds me of "hoodwink'd", which was "underground" in the sense that you had to edit your DNS settings for "hoodwink'd" to work. http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2006/01/hoodwinkd.html Your site URL hashing system is also pretty close how Goggles works, only instead of notes, you get to draw MS paint-like scribbles. http://goggles.sneakygcr.net Each website is uniquely keyed by a hash o…
Comment linking /2006/01/hoodwinkd.html
on “Use "Amazon 1 Button" Chrome extension to sniff all HTTPS websites”Submitted Modern view rendered source bookmarklet as a story · 1 points
HN discussion_why was one of the first to implement this, in 2005. It wasn't a chat, but a comment system for hackers. The installation instructions were intentionaly elusive: http://web.archive.org/web/20051125122020/http://hoodwinkd.h... The IP adresses point to DNS servers that serve two custom domains: hoodwink.d and ___._ (or you could add them to your host file? not sure...). From there you could browse those sites that ha…
Comment linking /2006/01/hoodwinkd.html
on “Chrome Extension that adds anonymous live chat to every site you're browsing.”Submitted Absolute url from a relative url and base_url as a story · 1 points
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